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To: LindyBill who wrote (86003)	11/14/2004 12:55:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793928

This will be the left's Headline in Europe tomorrow. ICRC Relief Convoy Stopped at Hospital By Alan Brain on Fallujah - COMMAND POST From the AFP via the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) : United States troops have prevented a Red Crescent convoy of emergency aid from reaching residents inside the Iraqi city of Fallujah, after allowing it as far as the main hospital.Hopes were raised that the military would make an exception to a no-entry rule when the trucks were allowed as far as the Fallujah general hospital, which was seized ahead of a US-Iraqi assault to gain control of the city. But Red Crescent spokeswoman Ferdus al-Ibadi says wounded residents inside the battle zone have been forbidden from entering the fully equipped facility while US forces stopped the aid convoy from reaching them. The US military was not immediately available for comment. “They are in the general hospital but until now the Americans will not let them distribute medical supplies in the city,” Ms Ibadi said of a team of about 50 volunteers and three doctors. Iraqi Red Crescent secretary-general Jamal al-Karboulie “is negotiating with the Americans to let them distribute the supplies to the people”, Ms Ibadi said. “Jamal is insisting at least to have permission to get the injured people out of Fallujah and into the hospital,” she said. Civilians hiding in Fallujah, where US and Iraqi troops have clashed with rebels since Monday, are dying of starvation and thirst and something must be done to help them, Ms Ibadi said. Four trucks, three ambulances and a minibus left the Red Crescent’s headquarters in Baghdad earlier in the day. The white trucks, some with flags jutting out of them, were laden with food, such as bread and rice, water and medical supplies, but Ms Ibadi warned there was insufficient material to meet the urgent demand in and around Fallujah.... 20 Foreign Fighters Found Executed By Alan Brain on Fallujah Confirming the reports in a previous post, from UPI : U.S. forces fighting in Fallujah found the bodies of 20 foreign fighters Friday in the southern part of the city who had been killed execution-style.The men were described as foot soldiers with Monotheism and Jihad, a guerrilla group headed by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi that now calls itself al-Qaida in Iraq, the Washington Post reported Friday. […] Residents say Zarqawi’s lieutenants ordered foreign fighters to man bunkers in two neighborhoods as other neighborhoods were to be defended by allied Muslim groups, the First Army of Mohammad and Ansar al-Sunna Army. But residents said the U.S-led offensive opened strains between the local insurgents and the foreigners. When a senior Zarqawi commander was found dead of a bullet to the head during the battle, many interpreted his death as the result of an insurgent execution. Besides the commander’s death, the bodies of 20 foreign fighters also were found shot to death execution-style, military officials said....